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Ps 6 : Prayer of Agony
This psalm is not only a prayer of an ill person imploring his God, it is mainly the prayer of the Messiah in His Agony, that is, in His great combat, of which the psalms are a sort of prophetic chronicle.
Ps 18 : Apocalypse
The second Book of Samuel ends with the extermination of Saul’s descendents and the account of the last deeds of David against the Philistines. There follows a song of thanksgiving that David addresses to Yahweh (2 S 22). This song of victory inspired Psalm 18 centuries later with a view to sustaining confidence amidst the tribulations of the last times of the Old Testament.
Saint Charles de Foucauld
Saint Charles de Foucauld, canonised on May 15, 2022, is our Father and we have chosen to take him for our model in order to follow him. This means that we let ourselves be taught by Saint Charles, in the school of his disciple, Father Georges de Nantes, who has given him to us as an example.
2. The Unbelieving Orphan
Born at Strasbourg on September 15, 1858, Charles de Foucauld had an unhappy childhood. When he became an orphan, he was entrusted to his grandfather. Influenced by the atmosphere of immorality and incredulity that pervaded his high school, he lost the faith and indulged in all his passions.
8. The martyred province (1962)
Calm still reigned in our French departments of North Africa, where the army continued to fulfil its function. In a year’s time, however, the abandonment of our beautiful Algeria would be complete. From April 1961 to March 1962, the negotiations undertaken by the French government with the Algerianrebellion would end in the victory of the worst.
Petition to Pope Francis
During this month of October we are going to celebrate the 97th anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, and of the ‘ great miracle ’ that She worked “ so that all might believe. ” I therefore venture to beseech you on bended knees, Most Holy Father, to accede to the demands of Heaven that are for the earth exigencies of Divine Mercy. They comprise of two requests.
1. The ruin of the Church as an Institution
We have seen a whole series of surprising decisions which were apparently aimed to show that the Church as an Institution had no claim to respect and that the Pope was therefore free to make what changes he pleased... affecting minor details but also points of fundamental importance.
1. Of man's transcendence and kingship: your blasphemy
You have dealt with the Kingship of Our Lord on several occasions but always from the same approach. I shall follow you closely here and quote in full from your Dialogue with André Frossard – from his book “ N'ayez pas peur ” (Be not afraid)...
2. Of Jesus Christ’s divinity and kingship : your apostasy
That the Pope, the Successor of Saint Peter, the Sovereign Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, reduces this same Lord, Son of God and Saviour, whether by lowering Him to the level of every man, it's so ANTICHRIST, we do not want to believe that it comes from the Pope. It's too appalling to be true...
3. Legitimate suspicion and withdrawal of obedience towards a perfidious pontiff
It is true, Most Holy Father, that You could offset with dozens of homilies and addresses given by Your Holiness in the exercise of his pastoral ministry, when You are wont to give each one the food he yearns for and the drink for which he thirsts.